How Web Designers Can Successfully Use the Dribbble Network

How Web Designers Can Successfully Use the Dribbble Network

Do you like basketball? If you do and you are a web designer, you may take a liking to the design community Dribbble. If you hate sports, no worries! You still may like the network, especially if you are a web designer looking to showcase some of your work and share snippets of it with others. Dribbble (yes, it has 3 B’s) is made up of a community of designers and creative types who share small screenshots of their daily work. The site’s verbiage is based on the sport...

Posted by: Jenna Scaglione, In: Design, On: May 16, 2012 | 3 Comments
Pandora UI Free for iOS – User Interface Pack

Pandora UI Free for iOS – User Interface Pack

After the successful launch of Pandora UI premium pack by DesignModo, we have decided to share a part of it with our beloved readers. You can now download the free version of Pandora UI containing a handful of elements that will definitely be helpful. The Pandora UI Free Kit, contains 2 samples and some elements that can be used in developing iPhone and iPad applications (Retina Display). You will find the needed elements for the creation of these applications by using the...

Posted by: Adrian, In: Freebies, On: May 15, 2012 | 3 Comments
Vendor Prefixes: A Force For Good or Evil?

Vendor Prefixes: A Force For Good or Evil?

The Story and Problems If you’re a web developer working with CSS (especially CSS3) in modern browsers, it’s more than likely that you’ve come across these things called vendor prefixes. Initially used for features unique to certain browsers, vendor prefixes are essentially a way of making a certain CSS property exclusive for one browser or rendering engine. At face value, vendor prefixes seem like a nice idea. They allow for certain browsers to implement unique or...

Posted by: Joe Savage, In: Coding, On: May 14, 2012 | 5 Comments
UI Kits for Developers – Prototyping and Homemade Design

UI Kits for Developers – Prototyping and Homemade Design

Hope you guys are enjoying our posts on UI Kits functionality. It’s such a new topic that it’s even hard to find other opinions out there, all we find is UI Kits collections, but no reflections or creative uses. So, hope to see more discussion on this, the door (a.k.a. comments / trackbacks section) is open! This is the last part of our UI Kits “series” (at least for now :D) we’ll talk a little more on how developers can me use of them, focusing on increase the...

Posted by: Rochester Oliveira, In: Coding, Design, On: May 11, 2012 | 4 Comments
Adobe Illustrator CS6 – Review of New Features

Adobe Illustrator CS6 – Review of New Features

Today I will try to analyze the most important of new features of Adobe Illustrator CS6, and will review the other less significant, in my opinion, improvements. After reading this review, you can get a first glimpse of the advantages of this release, and make your own conclusions; I was just trying to make an unbiased approach towards the subject of study. Gradients on strokes Now it is the first time since the creation of Adobe Illustrator it became possible to apply...

Posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, In: Design, On: May 10, 2012 | 5 Comments
Adobe Creative Suite 6 Review: New Additions and Features

Adobe Creative Suite 6 Review: New Additions and Features

Adobe released the new version of its Creative Suite toolkit, including Photoshop CS6, Illustrator CS6, Dreamweaver CS6 and others. Besides the updates, Adobe released and improved a set of products such as Creative Cloud or packages of products such as CS6 Production Premium, CS6 Design Standard and CS6 Design & Web Premium. In today’s article we take a deep look at each one of them and try to come with a conclusion about Adobe’s first product update in two long...

Posted by: Christian Vasile, In: Design, On: May 9, 2012 | 6 Comments
How to Create an Video Player in jQuery, HTML5 & CSS3 [Tutorial]

How to Create an Video Player in jQuery, HTML5 & CSS3 [Tutorial]

Topic: jQuery / CSS3 Difficulty: Intermediate / Advanced Estimated Completion Time: 45 mins In this tutorial we will code an Video Player from Impressionist UI by Vladimir Kudinov. We will code it with CSS3 for the styling and the “MediaElement.js” for the functionality. MediaElement.js is a HTML5 audio and video player that also works for older browsers using Flash and Silverlight to mimic the HTML5 MediaElement API. Step 1 – Downloading MediaElement.js First...

Posted by: Valeriu Timbuc, In: Freebies, Tutorials, On: May 8, 2012 | 30 Comments
Futurico – Free User Interface Elements Pack

Futurico – Free User Interface Elements Pack

Yay! It’s time for a new free giveaway and we are happy to present a wonderfully creative collection of Futurico – Free User Interface Components (PSD). We think that these are so far the greatest user interface components we have shared with you guys and we hope you will agree with us on this. Better see it for yourself and wait for updates because this giveaway will be totally special. We will update it every month with new cool elements so that our beloved readers...

Posted by: Adrian, In: Freebies, On: May 7, 2012 | 46 Comments
25+ New Examples of HTML5 and CSS3 Websites

25+ New Examples of HTML5 and CSS3 Websites

In the field of web designing newer tools are invented and introduced in the market very often. HTML is a language that is used to structure and present contents for the websites. This technology have seen many changes and goes through many improvements since its first introduction in 1990. Now the latest version of HTML that is known as HTML5 is used to create amazing designs for websites. Both HTML5 and CSS3 are now become one of the most trusted and widely used trend of...

Posted by: Adrian, In: Inspiration, On: May 4, 2012 | 9 Comments
Web Designers are Using the Behance Network to Increase Visibility

Web Designers are Using the Behance Network to Increase Visibility

The Behance Network was created for creative professionals who want to expand their network and display their talents and services. With its many avenues for self promotion, Behance gives creative professionals in industries such as fashion, graphic design, photography and web design, the opportunity to create professional-looking portfolios, promote and share their services and network with other professionals and companies who may become potential clients. Behance gives...

Posted by: Jenna Scaglione, In: Design, On: May 3, 2012 | 11 Comments